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Mac & Bone Show - Jake Crain Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about all things college football. Our next guest,
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  Speaker 1: the host, one of the many, great host of Crane & Company,
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  Speaker 1: he is Jake Crane, and he joins us to talk ball. Jake,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on, man? Appreciate it. How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man, I'm doing fantastic. Glad we got some more
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  Speaker 2: college football on tonight.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you what, if week two can get close
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  Speaker 3: to week one, we're in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't kidding, man. And there are some good ones
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  Speaker 1: on the slate in week two. What did you think
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  Speaker 1: about the way LSU dispatched of Clemson? Did you watch
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  Speaker 1: that game and say, oh, no, Clemson's in real trouble?
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  Speaker 1: Or did you watch it and think more of, oh, damn,
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  Speaker 1: this LSU team could contend for a national championship? What
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  Speaker 1: did you think?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, on our show, we tried to
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  Speaker 3: tell everybody this was coming. You could smell it from
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  Speaker 3: a mile away. I try not to overreact after the
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  Speaker 3: first games because teams change so much. Games, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really from game one to game three.
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  Speaker 2: But, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Clemson's response, and I've got a lot of respect for Dabo,
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  Speaker 3: and I know he cares about his guys and his players,
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  Speaker 3: and they're going to try and stay together.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 3: Offensively, the scheme, Chad Morris, they look so unprepared, especially
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  Speaker 3: on the line of scrimmage at the offensive line, but
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  Speaker 3: I really went away from that game looking at LSU,
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  Speaker 3: watching the way they run around, watching the way the
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  Speaker 3: guys look at, they have watching the way that LSU
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  Speaker 3: played disciplined with really good players, which is horrifying. Like
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  Speaker 3: that time, Tony Stark built that, you know, suit in
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  Speaker 3: the cave out of scraps. I came away more impressed
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  Speaker 3: with LSU than, you know, Oh, Clemson's never going to
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  Speaker 3: win another game. Again, I had Clemson go in eight
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  Speaker 3: and four, possibly seven and five at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the day. So I wasn't shocked there.
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  Speaker 4: That is the voice of Jake Crane, one of the
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  Speaker 4: hosts of Crane & Cone. Check it out on YouTube.
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  Speaker 4: He's on Twitter, Jake Crane, C-R-A-I-N underscore, a tremendous college
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  Speaker 4: football follow. I know there's a lot of reasons behind this, Jake,
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  Speaker 4: but what do you point as the biggest reason of
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  Speaker 4: how Clemson has ended up in this spot where they've
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  Speaker 4: regressed so far in a couple of years?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of like how a tornado is formed,
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  Speaker 3: at least how I think they say it's formed. You've
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  Speaker 3: got to have certain hot air mixed with other conditions.
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  Speaker 3: It just seems like the coaching staff has got regressed
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  Speaker 3: back to the mean, and the personnel and the depth
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  Speaker 3: has regressed back to the mean, and you put those
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  Speaker 3: two things.
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  Speaker 2: Together, and it's kind of like a double whammy. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the Trevor Lawrences? Where are the guys that I
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  Speaker 2: watched with Clemson?
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  Speaker 3: Where's the Nuke Hopkins and the Justin Rosses and guys
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  Speaker 3: like that?
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  Speaker 2: I like Wesco.
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  Speaker 3: They've got a couple other pieces, but it just seems
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  Speaker 3: like in aggregate, Clemson just doesn't have enough guys.
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  Speaker 2: Especially at the high end level.
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  Speaker 3: And look what LSU has that's top shelf liquor, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: So it just seems like you've had a, a, a.
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  Speaker 3: Regression of the mean from the coaching staff and from
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  Speaker 3: the personnel, which I've got a lot of respect for
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  Speaker 3: Tom Allen. I always said, if you want to fix
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  Speaker 3: something in your house, you call Tim Allen. If you
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  Speaker 3: want to fix your defense, you.
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  Speaker 2: Call Tom Allen. It's the same. I got to throw
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  Speaker 2: that line away.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's such a good line, but that line is
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  Speaker 1: in jeopardy.
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  Speaker 4: I always have that line though. It is in jeopardy, man.
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  Speaker 4: That's what you're good for. Your references blow our minds sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: That's two already today.
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  Speaker 1: He's on a roll, baby. On a holiday morning after
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  Speaker 1: a long weekend of football, he's still got it, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 4: No holidays in the crane house.
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  Speaker 2: No, especially with two young kids now. There's never a holiday.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good point. That's a good point. Jake Crane
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  Speaker 1: is with us. Crane and company. Tremendous college football content.
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  Speaker 1: Look for their channel on YouTube. It is great stuff. Reacting.
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  Speaker 1: always in previewing college football. Let's talk about the Michigan win.
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  Speaker 1: They got a do-over on a bad Hail Mary pass,
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  Speaker 1: and Underwood put that one on the money. But, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everybody in America felt sick for Western Michigan. You have
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  Speaker 1: heard the Big Ten's kind of explanation since then and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Do you feel still today that Western Michigan got screwed
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's funny, you know, Bryce Underwood can really put
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  Speaker 3: it on the money when he doesn't have to throw
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  Speaker 3: it to anybody. You know, just that's just a sacred path.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what, here's where I sit. I watched that thing
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  Speaker 3: in real time live. And, and my, my first question
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  Speaker 3: is why is the game clock not synced up with the,
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  Speaker 3: whatever Hawkeye system y'all have with the coaches and the
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks are looking at y'all may want to fix that.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, but number two, Man, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: If I had screwed over a team, excuse my language,
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  Speaker 3: and I had to come up with some excuse to not.
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  Speaker 2: Have the college football world freak out. God, it sounds
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  Speaker 2: like the one they used.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, our Hawkeye system here, look at this, look
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  Speaker 3: at this video, look at this video where he touches.
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  Speaker 2: It was one second that we definitely didn't doctor.
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  Speaker 3: I just, I watched it in real time, man. I,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like Western Michigan won that football. David Cone, who's,
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  Speaker 3: who's one of, one of our three hosts on Cranny Cone,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he played quarterback at Michigan. The first thing
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  Speaker 3: he said is Michigan lost that game. And I think
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  Speaker 3: they did. If I'm Western Michigan, I would have pulled
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  Speaker 3: a Jackie Moon.
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  Speaker 2: We would have left the field. You wouldn't have got
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  Speaker 2: another play.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Jay, my guy Mackey brought up a great point
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  Speaker 4: because after the game, I'm sure you saw it too,
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  Speaker 4: Kyle Whittingham was talking to– Western Michigan's Lance Taylor, and
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  Speaker 4: he appeared to say there was no time left. And then, Mac,
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  Speaker 4: what did he say in the postgame? In the presser,
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  Speaker 4: he said, I looked up at the game clock when
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  Speaker 4: it happened. I thought there was one second left, but
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  Speaker 4: that's just me. It's like, that's not what lip readers
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  Speaker 4: think you said.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, look, I think we all know it's like politicians.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, well, you know, I said that, but I
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  Speaker 3: really meant was, man, prices are too high.
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  Speaker 4: Louisville out of the ACC loses last night on a
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  Speaker 4: last-second field goal to Ole Miss, but what did you
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  Speaker 4: think of the Cards' performance last night, and do they
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  Speaker 4: seem like a playoff team potentially to you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I had him in the ACC title
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  Speaker 3: game before the season. And after the first half, I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't feeling very good about it. But after the second half,
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  Speaker 3: I was feeling a lot better. I just don't understand
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  Speaker 3: why they hate field goal kickers so much. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: good Lord, guys. I've never seen somebody run into the
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  Speaker 3: kicker twice in a matter of three plays. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: let the guy kick. I think athletically, physically.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I was super impressed. I know, I know
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  Speaker 3: Ole Miss ended up scoring 41 points, but the difference was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Ole Miss was blowing coverages.
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  Speaker 2: Louisville was just.
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  Speaker 3: Getting blown by after Deuce Alexander caught the ball. Those
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  Speaker 3: are two different things. But, but I, what kind holds,
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  Speaker 3: I thought tough, real tough, gritty, you know, I had
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  Speaker 3: the two box up and I swear Wisconsin and Louisville
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  Speaker 3: had the same guy at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: If you were.
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  Speaker 3: Watching both those games at once, it was literally the
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  Speaker 3: same guy. But, yeah, without a doubt, you look at
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  Speaker 3: the schedule that Louisville has. We've got to see SMU tonight,
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  Speaker 3: but it's really, really hard after week one not to
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  Speaker 3: look at Louisville and Miami and go, yep, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I tend to agree with that, and you bring
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  Speaker 1: up a great point. The 56-yard field goal that was missed,
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  Speaker 1: and they called the roughing, and it leads to the touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Like that right there, that might have been the game.
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  Speaker 1: If Louisville doesn't make that mistake, they may win that game, man.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought they put– compared to some other ACC schools, Clemson,
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  Speaker 1: they put on a much better show representing the conference.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. What did you think– let's
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  Speaker 1: go more to a national scale here. What did you
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  Speaker 1: think of the performance from Oregon– boise i mean up
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  Speaker 1: 10 in the first half of this game and oregon
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  Speaker 1: didn't seal that one until the final couple of minutes
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  Speaker 1: did you watch that and i made oregon my national
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  Speaker 1: championship pick a year after making clemson my nationals i
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  Speaker 1: thought i was gonna lose my champ in week one
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  Speaker 1: for the second straight year that explains what did you
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  Speaker 1: think like is oregon overhyped or is that just kind
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  Speaker 1: of week one and they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, for this year for Oregon, it's not, hey,
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  Speaker 3: let's win the Big Ten or, hey, let's make the
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  Speaker 3: college football playoff. It's what they're going to do when
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  Speaker 3: they make the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 2: And for that to change.
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  Speaker 3: For them to be able to advance further, they have
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  Speaker 3: got to become more dominant in the line of scrimmage. And, again,
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  Speaker 3: I've got a ton of respect for Boise State.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, how do you not?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it feels like in, like, the non-P4, they're
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  Speaker 3: kind of like that kid in fifth grade that's, like,
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  Speaker 3: already 6'2 1⁄2. and just like dominates every kid that
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  Speaker 3: his age, but you know, when, when he plays against
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  Speaker 3: the older kids, they beat them. It, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: Oregon looked a lot like I've seen Oregon the past
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  Speaker 3: couple of years, but offensively Dante Moore was great. We
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  Speaker 3: know Decorian Moore, Evan Stewart, Jordan Davidson, which is the
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  Speaker 3: second most important Jordan in college football. but they looked mortal.
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  Speaker 2: In the front seven.
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  Speaker 3: And if that happens again, they're going to just shove
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  Speaker 3: you in the locker in front of the cheerleaders. They
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  Speaker 3: get in the high school at the end of the season.
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  Speaker 3: So I, it seems like Oregon looks like regular Oregon,
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  Speaker 3: which is so weird under Dan Lane. He was such
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  Speaker 3: a good defensive coach and an incredible motivator. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he could get somebody to walk up out of a wheelchair.
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  Speaker 4: No, You're throwing about 99 on the reference. You're like
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  Speaker 4: Randy Johnson in his prime right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like Zoolander.
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  Speaker 2: I got one move, but it's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: I got one look.
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  Speaker 4: Audience loves the references. Real quick before I let you go,
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  Speaker 4: who do you like this weekend in Austin, Ohio State, Texas?
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  Speaker 4: What's your pick in that game?
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  Speaker 3: In these games, I like to go with home team
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  Speaker 3: just because they're so evenly matched. They're so talented. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to know which quarterback you trust if you
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  Speaker 3: can't run the ball. To me, if somebody's got to
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  Speaker 3: sit in the pocket and beat anybody, I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: go Julian Sam, but I think Sark's going to find
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  Speaker 3: a way.
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  Speaker 2: Give me Texas.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there he is. He is Jake Crane, Crane
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  Speaker 1: and Company. Look these guys up. Crane and Cone. Crane
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  Speaker 1: and Cone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it turns out David's last name isn't Company.
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  Speaker 1: I keep calling it Company. That's the old name? Is
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  Speaker 1: that what it is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the old name again.
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  Speaker 3: I must have misread it or something, but his last
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  Speaker 3: name is Cone.
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  Speaker 1: My bad.
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  Speaker 4: We had him on a couple weeks ago, and we
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  Speaker 4: had to explain to Mac he's not the former Yankees pitcher.
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  Speaker 1: I just learned that, and now I'm leaving his name
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  Speaker 1: out of the damn show.
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  Speaker 2: That's my bad.
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  Speaker 3: I will say, I know you guys got to go,
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  Speaker 3: but somebody said, man, David Cohn, I can't believe y'all
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  Speaker 3: got the former pitcher on. And he was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you had all that trouble in the bullpen and that scandal,
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  Speaker 3: but to be honest with you, I'd never pitch for
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  Speaker 3: the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: That's hilarious. All right, Crane and Cone, everybody. Say it
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  Speaker 1: together now. Crane and Cone. All right, David Cone is
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  Speaker 1: a person too and deserves his name in the show.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Look those guys up and
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  Speaker 1: listen to them talk college football. Appreciate you, Jake. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much, man.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, see you, fellas.